Michael HyunGu Kang
My Number 18 , 2022
Acrylic paint, paint marker, abalone, hanbok fabric, and pencil on a wooden panel
11” x 14”
A thickly painted, multicolored figure reaches their right arm to the sky and holds a microphone in the left as they sing. They pose against a dark geometric background. There are red stitched numbers embroidered at the top right that are cut off at the edge of the painting.
Biography Michael Hyun Gu Kang is a Korean American artist and painter based in San Francisco, California. His work has shown internationally and locally. This has included showings at Arc...
Biography
Michael Hyun Gu Kang is a Korean American artist and painter based in San Francisco, California. His work has shown internationally and locally. This has included showings at Arc Gallery, Land and Sea, The Salesforce Tower, and Vessel Gallery. In 2017 his zine, "hotdogs and rice" was collected by SF MOMA through Land and Sea publishings.
His work is heavily influenced by his childhood spent in suburban Southern California, and his past as an athlete, and dancer.